Outdoor Cushions Finally Woven

 I have been planning these cushions for at least 2 years but life got in the way. I was determined to weave them this year and now they are finally finished. I am extremely happy with how they have turned out. 

I put on enough warp for 6 of them. I knew from my last cushions that the 5/2 cotton i have been using shrinks by about 3 inches after hot washing and running the fabric through the dryer, so I added about 2 more inches to my warp calculations .

The pattern that I picked is from somewhere on Pinterest and looked very busy on Paper but I put it into the iWeaveIt app and played around with the colours that i would be using and it ended up looking really nice. I chose Black and brown with a black weft.

Once again i used woven interfacing on the back of my fabric and finished with an invisible zip .

Here is my lovely new cushions.

Project notes

5/2 Mercerised Cotton.

22 in wide in reed

440 ends

20 ends per inch

4 Meter warp

Finished size before washing 19 1/2 inches

After washing 18 1/2

A Closeup of the design below.

2 special cushions for my newly renovated home

 I chose to do these cushions in a 4 shaft diamond design from the handweavers pattern directory book. I love how they turned out in 5/2 mercerised cotton. I used a woven interfacing on the back of the woven fabric to give it a nice stable finish. 

Lovely and plump and very soft to touch. What i was not happy with . was Ashfords cotton especially the white having so many knots in it . That really annoys me because i am having to cut so much length out of my thread that i have paid dearly for. The softness of the finished fabric on the other hand is beautiful. 

Here they are all finished, plump and sitting proud. This lounge isn’t the colour that i was making the cushions for, its for my upcoming lounge after our very long reno that is now completed.

Kitchen Towels completed

 I got 8 kitchen towels out of this warp. I love the way they turned out. Here they are in all their glory.

I used 8 different drafts in a straight 8 design and its so lovely to sample all the different drafts that this simple weaving produces on eight shafts. They were all made in 10/2 mercerised cotton and are very absorbent.